Star Children: Pirates

Astrological Stories by Juri Viktor Stork

"Thirteen pirates on a boat ..." Eerie chanting
resounds from the hall, doors are slammed, and upstairs at
least three
dinosaurs are dancing Rock'n Roll - the children are
back. Our old house with its wooden floors has gone through
quite a lot over the years. But now, even the lamp on the ceiling
starts to swing softly - time to go upstairs and "put
a parental foot down"!

My
daughter Rafaela is sitting on the bed of one of our
neighbours' children. Sword in hand, a helmet on her
head, she shouts at the top of her voice "...Hohoho,
and a bottle of rum!" Three boys are glaring at me
with wild eyes and decide to take me captive. I try to
walk into
the room without stepping on anything sharp, sticky or fragile,
and invite the crew to have a snack. "What do
you have?",
my sweet-toothed pirate daughter wants to know. "Doughnuts",
and the shouting stops immediately and makes room for a many-voiced "Mmmmh,
fine."

Back in our flat, all of them are sitting quietly at the table,
enjoying the sweet delicacy, when there is a soft knock
at the door. Moses, the smallest member of the "crew" wants
to join in, and also asks for his doughnut. Five children
covered in icing sugar ...

My wife Annina and I, our 8-year-old son Leo, and our 7-year-old
daughter Rafaela have lived in this over 200-year-old house
for
a few
years now. Rolf and Vivian live on the ground floor with their
4-year-old son Moses, the second floor belongs to Barbara with
her two boys Wilhelm and Michael, 8 and 5 years old. Three
families: five adults, five children, three cats - truly thirteen
pirates
...! The house demands a lot from its inhabitants as far as
openness and the ability to keep one's private space are concerned:
we listen to each
other cleaning our teeth, put up with a groaning ceiling when
dinosaurs start dancing, and enrich each other with our
latest musical discoveries. As parents
we are happy to discover that other couples also have rows,
that not only our children have achieved mastery in emotional
blackmail, and that even our pedagocially skilled housemate
can be prone
to completely unpedagocial shouting occasionally.

But
for the children, this house really is like a huge ship which
sometimes floats on a calm sea, sometimes crosses stormy
waters, and now and again takes off for a flight into new dimensions.
They try themselves out as pirates, witches, sewerage workers,
and confectioners. Nothing is solid, everything is in flux,
even their relationships with one another.

As an astrologer and curious person I like to look behind
the veil of appearances - with the necessary respect. A horoscope
reading for an adult is directed at a self-confident person
who wants to understand themselves better. Therefore, I do
not
hesitate to confront my clients with difficult aspects of their
personalities. This is the only
way growth is possible. A child's horoscope reading, however,
talks ABOUT the child to the parents or guardians. Here,
a lot of sensitivity is required, not only with the more difficult
aspects of the personality. What would you do with a sentence
like: "Your
child will be a very special person..."?
How would you get it out of your head?

Let's be honest - as parents, we have expectations as well
as fears for our children, and most of
the time, these have more to do with our own experiences than
with our children and their world ... . A good reading of a
child's horoscope addresses you as a mother or father, and
intends
to show
the whole potential of the child's character. In this way,
you
can take back your own projections. Children are not unformed
or incomplete adults but always complete in themselves, everything
is there right from the start. Remember?

So, what can I tell you about my daughter Rafaela, seven years
old, with a Pisces Sun? Pisceans are quiet and gentle - is
this what you think? Yes, and pirates knit socks ...! Rafaela,
with her Scorpio Ascendant, is a passionate Pisces. She loves
to eat fish, she loves fishes, especially dolphins, she swims
like a fish, and her favourite play is to go to sea as a pirate,
occasionally dive into deep waters to retrieve valuable
pearls, fight a terrible sea monster or find a mysterious treasure
that she shares with her cronies, and to continue their cruise
towards
new oceans. The new ocean emerges in her glass of water at
the evening meal, and a bit of cheese takes a bath ... She
fights passionately with her brother for the best place on
mother's lap, and she falls passionately into bed and the
deep sea
of sleep.

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